Editing Old Forest (section)

==Adaptations==

The forest appears in the video game [[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'']].<ref>{{cite web |last=Villoria |first=Gerald |title=The Fellowship of the Ring Preview (Xbox) |publisher=[[GameSpot]] |date=16 June 2002 |url=http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-fellowship-of-the-ring-preview/1100-2874504/ |access-date=10 December 2022}}</ref> In the [[Massively multiplayer online role-playing game|MMORPG]] ''[[Lord of the Rings Online]]'', a quest to gather lilies for [[Goldberry]] at the foot of Old Man Willow is given to the player by Bombadil, who warns that the tree will "sing you right to sleep".<ref>{{cite web |title=A Hero's Guide to the Old Forest |url=https://www.mmorpg.com/lord-of-the-rings-online/developer-journals/a-heros-guide-to-the-old-forest-2000116523 |website=MMORPG<!--guess this is the horse's mouth for this sort of thing--> |access-date=13 May 2020 |date=18 February 2009 |quote=After finding Tom in Chapter 9: Lilies for the River-daughter, he agrees to help you—only if you collect lilies for his wife Goldberry. Tom warns you that the lilies are guarded by the ancient tree known as Old Man Willow. Some say that this venerable tree and its dark heart is the source of all that is evil within the Old Forest.}}</ref> Along with the adventure in Crickhollow, Tom Bombadil, and the Barrow-downs, the Old Forest is omitted from [[Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings|Peter Jackson's interpretation of ''The Lord of the Rings'']].<ref name="Rateliff 2011">{{cite book |last=Rateliff |first=John D. |author-link=John D. Rateliff |chapter=Two Kinds of Absence: Elision & Exclusion in Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings'' |editor1-last=Bogstad |editor1-first=Janice M. |editor2-last=Kaveny |editor2-first=Philip E. |title=Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy |title-link=Picturing Tolkien |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA54 |year=2011 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |isbn=978-0-7864-8473-7 |pages=54–69 |access-date=25 August 2020 |archive-date=2021-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416095950/https://books.google.com/books?id=jNjKrXRP0G8C&pg=PA54 |url-status=live }}</ref>